They're largely harmless. Some of them seem pointless or purely resisting-change, like disabling menu bar transparency. Subpixel font rendering could look pretty bad on the wrong screen.
A lot of those Finder options are just going to increase noise on the screen. It's rare that I ever need to know the full path of something in OS X. Either I'm already on the command line, or I just use Spotlight.
Disabling the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog seems just wrong. Confirming once per program downloaded from the net seems like a sane default.
Anyway these are pretty subjective things. Good thing they're so easy to pick and choose from and revert.
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They're largely harmless. Some of them seem pointless or purely resisting-change, like disabling menu bar transparency. Subpixel font rendering could look pretty bad on the wrong screen.
A lot of those Finder options are just going to increase noise on the screen. It's rare that I ever need to know the full path of something in OS X. Either I'm already on the command line, or I just use Spotlight.
Disabling the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog seems just wrong. Confirming once per program downloaded from the net seems like a sane default.
Anyway these are pretty subjective things. Good thing they're so easy to pick and choose from and revert.
Subpixel font rendering being disabled by default caused text to appear absolutely horrible on my brand new 23' IPS display.
Can you provide an example of an external display on which it's not necessary or harmful?
A projector.
> It's rare that I ever need to know the full path of something in OS X. Either I'm already on the command line, or I just use Spotlight.
I will never understand this.